Zabbix Certified Specialist (ZCS)
You’ll learn how to deploy, configure, and maintain a Zabbix instance from scratch. You’ll also obtain practical knowledge required for configuring monitoring endpoints, learn a variety of metric collection and problem detection techniques, and become familiar with a variety of monitoring concepts.
Course information
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Products covered: Zabbix 7.0
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Format: Up to 12 students
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Duration: 5 days
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Course requirements: None
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Recommended skills: Basic experience in Linux operating systems
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Next level: Zabbix Certified Professional Level 3
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Previous level: Zabbix Certified User Level 1
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Price : 1950 €
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Price Combi : ZCS + ZCP 3350 €
Course program
Day 1
- Zabbix main components
- User interface overview
- Setting up a personalized user profile
- Zabbix definitions: items, triggers, etc.
- Creating and configuring a host
- User macros and tags
- Data collection using simple and SSH checks
- Zabbix agent, Zabbix agent2 plugins
Day 2
- Zabbix agent active and passive mode
- Making data human-readable with units and value maps
- Data collection intervals
- Data transformation using preprocessing
- Problem detection using triggers
- Cause and symptom problems, trigger dependencies
Day 3
- Zabbix proxies
- Working with templates
- Data aggregation with calculated items
- Bulk data collection using dependent items
- HTTP data collection and synthetic web monitoring
- Log file monitoring
- SNMP monitoring
- Database monitoring
Day 4
- Java monitoring
- Inventory data collection
- User management using user groups and roles
- JIT provisioning with LDAP and SAML
- Sending notifications and executing remote commands
- Maintenance periods
- Services monitoring (SLA)
- Low-level discovery basics
- Audit overview
Day 5
- Data visualization using graphs, maps and dashboards
- Zabbix reporting services
- Zabbix performance tuning
- Zabbix administrative settings
- Zabbix releases
- Zabbix certified specialist upgrade